Oh lillie that makes me laugh. Not AT you, but WITH you. Almost TEN years ago I had my last full night of sleep. TEN YEARS!! No joke, not an exaggeration. Haven't had one good sleeper and now we live with a toddler in the middle of us EVERY night kicking and smacking in her sleep. Tried getting her out, but she finds her way back. Someday it will happen. Brian and I talk about that day often......it does help to be a morning person though. Thanks to my mom for that ;)

We are so much alike. I am NOT a morning person either and I'm so sorry that what I have to say isn't what you want to read. :) Grace hardly ever sleeps through the night and she's almost 5! Is her room light? Taggart's is completely black and it's helped him. Yes, someday we will all have sleep. :)haha

Lillie Kameron did that a lot before Macyn came, then after Macyn came both Kameron and Ayden were having a hard time sleeping through the night. This is what we found to work out the best. One, I made a little nest on my floor with blankets and a couple of pillows and I told them if they came into my room they didn't need to wake me up, they could just laid down on the nest and go to sleep. Then we did a chart they got a sticker for every night that they stayed in their bed till the sun came out. Once they did it for a whole week we took them to Toys R Us for a new toy. It only took a couple of weeks before the whole toy thing was forgotten and they stayed in their own bed. Good Luck......

Oh dear. Really Lillie? Because we moved Avery to a big girl bed about two or three weeks ago and she has been doing awesome. Though, now I'm a little worried. Sophia is the best sleeper of all I know!

I'm sure she'll get back on track. How long has it been? It's got to be a phase. Hopefully a short one, but I'm sure it will be.

I'm right there with you. I mean mentally, right there. Will the sleep ever come? Will we ever return to the best version of ourselves-- as in the patient, nice, kind people we were before we became so sleep deprived!? I hope so. Sincerely.

Madisen started doing that around 3 years old. I would make a bed on the floor next to my bed and tell her she could sleep there. She did that for a while and eventually went back to sleeping in her room. But then she started waking up at 5:00 a.m. every morning. She did it for a while. I'm so sorry. Blocking out the light helps.

I have to admit that I love reading your guys blog. Your pics are so fun - and I have no idea where you have the time to take all these fun pics with two little ones, and post it all!

I have to tell you I thought of you last month - true story: I was on the computer and and realized suddenly it was TOO quiet - so I call for Kami and look around for her - nowhere to be found. Finally after a few minutes of panic I find her smiling and happy as can be with a mouth full of marshmallows she had somehow found, and opened out of our cupboard. How did she know they were "candy" when I had never given her one?

I thought of Sophia's indulgence with marshmallows in her closet. Too bad I didn't have a camera handy.

Your girls are sooooo cute!!! Good luck with getting her to sleep better - I'm sure it's a phase.

hi- i'm lillie

I take pictures, drool over design, and (clearly much more importantly) raise kids with my husband, Ross, the nicest guy most people have met. He makes me look bad, so I use this teenie corner of the internet to make myself look goooood. But then... as it turns out, I have problems with discretion and can't help but air it ALL out. So that doesn't really work out for me. Sometimes I blog about aperture, and ISO settings, sometimes tulip tables and greek key, but mostly three cute blue-eyed kids and our adventure-less adventures.